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The 91ÖÆƬ³§¹ú²úAV today announced the appointment of Philip J. Weiser, senior adviser for technology and innovation to the National Economic Council at the White House, as dean of the University of Colorado Law School. CU-Boulder Provost Russell L. Moore said Weiser will begin his duties as dean on July 1, 2011.

A 91ÖÆƬ³§¹ú²úAV team will be part of a mission selected yesterday by NASA to launch a spacecraft to an asteroid and pluck samples from its surface to better understand the formation of the solar system and perhaps even the first inklings of life.

You are what you eat whether you're a lion, a giraffe or a human -- at least in terms of the bacteria in your gut.

Three 91ÖÆƬ³§¹ú²úAV professors will receive five-year, $750,000 grants as part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Early Career Research Program created in 2010 to bolster the nation's scientific workforce with top young researchers

Cigarette smoking, burning forests and even cooking fires all release a chemical compound not previously known to exist in significant quantities in smoke and which may have potential human health impacts, says a new study involving the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the 91ÖÆƬ³§¹ú²úAV.

A report commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy has concluded that a novel 91ÖÆƬ³§¹ú²úAV method of producing hydrogen fuel from sunlight is the only approach among eight competing technologies that is projected to meet future cost targets set by the federal agency.

Interactive teaching methods significantly improved attendance and doubled both engagement and learning in a large physics class, according to a University of British Columbia study involving 91ÖÆƬ³§¹ú²úAV Distinguished Professor Carl Wieman that is being published today in Science.

Two faculty members from the 91ÖÆƬ³§¹ú²úAV have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, a top honor recognizing scientists and engineers for distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.

After six years of helping operate NASA spacecraft and satellites, Andrew Poppe will receive his doctoral degree in physics from the 91ÖÆƬ³§¹ú²úAV on May 6.

To honor a father who stoked their love of history and respect for civil rights, Boulder sisters and 91ÖÆƬ³§¹ú²úAV alumnae Midge Korczak and Leslie Singer Lomas have donated $2 million to endow the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History at CU-Boulder.